alfonso sopena

Madrid, 1945. Graduated with a BSc in 1972 and PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Madrid. He began his career as a researcher and assistant at the Department of Stratigraphy and the Institute of Economic Geology (CSIC-UCM) in 1972, the same institute he headed from 1989-1998. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Universities of Cambridge (UK) and Strasbourg (France). He has been president of the o Royal Spanish Society of Natural History. His principal expertise lays in fluvial sedimentology, slackwater deposits, Permian and Triassic sediments and Basin analysis. Actually, primary research interests involve the sedimentology and Stratigraphy of slackwater deposits in Holocene fluvial deposits. This information can be used in risk assessment and in the assessment of climatic change. The main target is reconstructing long-term flood records and to improve understanding of the societal response to these catastrophic floods.